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Four NextSense academics and practitioners joined world leaders at Macquarie University’s recent Beyond Speech workshop, to share their clinical and academic knowledge aimed at advancing understanding of the communication challenges children who are deaf or hard of hearing face. Director of NextSense Institute, Professor Greg

  The Beyond Speech Workshop, focusing on improving communication for children with hearing loss, was held online on 14th-15th October, 2021.     This highly successful workshop had over 500 attendees, including many clinicians and itinerant teachers of the deaf, as well as local and

  As you’re aware, Macquarie University, the Australian Hearing Hub and the Junior Science Academy have successfully been running Hearing Hub junior Science Camps for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children since 2018. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. One of the most appreciated factors is that children

  Sixteen Aboriginal health workers undertaking a Diploma in Audiometry have been welcomed to campus for their first face-to-face teaching block. The students hail from all over NSW, including regional and remote areas, and received scholarships as part of a Medical Research Future Fund grant

Mask wearing and physical distancing in a COVID-19 world can make communication challenging, particularly for people with hearing loss who have difficulty understanding speech. The National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) has tackled this problem by developing the NALscribe iPad app that clinics can use to make

This study highlights a critical role for neural feedback circuits that modulate the activity of the inner ear, enabling effective listening to degraded speech Understanding degraded speech leads to perceptual gating of a brain stem reflex in human listeners, is now published in PLOS Biology.

The Hearing Hub Junior Science Academy for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children is a finalist in the Engagement Australia 2021 Excellence Awards “Since 2018, Macquarie University, the Australian Hearing Hub, Junior Science Academy, and Parents of Deaf Children have developed unique opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing

  Does hearing impairment impact older adults’ physical and mental health? Can eating more fish or berries lower your risk of developing hearing loss? Professor Bamini Gopinath, epidemiologist and Cochlear Chair in Hearing and Health Macquarie University discusses how lifestyle factors impact on hearing loss and other

Announcing the Phonak-Macquarie-NAL Alliance on hearing research and innovation to improve the uptake and benefit to listeners of hearing-aid technologies Macquarie University and The National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) are delighted to announce the formation of the Phonak-Macquarie-NAL Alliance. This unique three-way, multi-year research partnership, funded